Outwood Grange Academies Trust Unseen Poetry Revision Handbook

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1 Outwood Grange Academies Trust Unseen Poetry Revision Handbook Name: English Teacher: SECTION C (Unseen Poetry)

2 WJEC Eduqas GCSE in English Literature Component 2, Section C: Unseen Poetry Approaching Unseen Poetry: Students should get into the habit of reading and re-reading poems before they begin writing on them Students need to track the poem through units of meaning or sense, not line-by-line. They should be taught to read from punctuation mark to punctuation mark It is better to analyse the poems individually first, ideally through units of meaning, before beginning to compare them. This way the second poem is given equal treatment Acronyms to remember ways to explore the poems should not be used. Teach the students to engage with the words and their implications, rather than run through a check list of devices that may or may not be present Students need to spend 20 minutes on (a), worth 15 marks, and 40 minutes on (b), worth 25 marks. Students need to: Take note of the title Focus on the use of words and their implications. Use the suggests formula Back up their points with embedded words and phrases Consider the voice of the poem and who, if anyone, the poem is addressed to Consider the aims of the poem (a story, experience, protest?) Consider the organisation of the poem Consider the mood and atmosphere of the poem and whether it changes Consider their personal response to a poem Avoid underestimating the end of the poem Avoid spotting techniques. They need to use some key terms accurately (see below), but these should only be used if the student can explain the impact this device has on the reader s understanding of the poem. The focus is always on words and their implications, not on device spotting Compare content, themes, mood, and structure use basic comparison words such as also and whereas. The following key terms should be sufficient when studying poetry: image/imagery, simile and metaphor, caesura and sonnet, stanza, enjambement, pace and tone, personification, first and second person.

Answer both part (a) and part (b) You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a) and about 40 minutes on part (b). Read the two poems Symptoms by Sophie Hannah and First Love by Brian Patten.

3 Answer both part (a) and part (b) You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a) and about 40 minutes on part (b). Read the two poems Symptoms by Sophie Hannah and First Love by Brian Patten. Both poems are about love and relationships. Write about the poem Symptoms by Sophie Hannan, and its effect on you. [15] You may wish to consider: What the poem is about and how it is organised; The ideas the poet may have wanted us to think about; The poet s choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poem. Symptoms by Sophie Hannah b) Now compare Symptoms by Sophie Hannah and First Love by Brian Patten.

4 [25] You should compare: What the poems are about and how they are organised; The ideas the poets may have wanted us to think about; The poets choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poems. First Love by Brian Patten

5 Answer both part (a) and part (b) You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a) and about 40 minutes on part (b). Read the two poems A London Recipe by Steve Turner and A London Thoroughfare 2 a.m. by Amy Lowell. Both poems are about London and the idea of living in a big city. Write about the poem A London Recipe by Steve Turner, and its effect on you. You may wish to consider: [15] What the poem is about and how it is organised; The ideas the poet may have wanted us to think about; The poet s choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poem. Daily London Recipe by Steve Turner

6 b) Now compare A London Recipe by Steve Turner and A London Thoroughfare 2 a.m. by Amy Lowell. You should compare: [25] What the poems are about and how they are organised; The ideas the poets may have wanted us to think about; The poets choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poems. A London Thoroughfare 2 a.m. by Amy Lowell

7 Answer both part (a) and part (b) You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a) and about 40 minutes on part (b). Read the two poems Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti and A Marriage by Michael Blumenthal. Both poems are about love and marriage. Write about the poem Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti and its effect on you. [15] Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti

8 b) Now compare Cousin Kate by Christina Rossetti and A Marriage by Michael Blumenthal. [25] You should compare: What the poems are about and how they are organised; The ideas the poets may have wanted us to think about; The poets choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poems. A Marriage by Michael Blumenthal.

9 Answer both part (a) and part (b) You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on part (a) and about 40 minutes on part (b). Read the two poems Visiting Hour by Norman MacCaig and Long Distance by Tony Harrison. Both poems are about loss. Write about the poem Visiting Hour by Norman MacCaig and its effect on you. [15] Visiting Hour by Norman MacCaig The hospital smell combs my nostrils as they go bobbing along green and yellow corridors. What seems a corpse is trundled into an lift and vanishes heavenward. I will not feel I will not Feel, until I have to. Nurses walk lightly, swiftly, here and up and down and there, their slender waists miraculously carrying their burden of so much pain, so many deaths their eyes still clear after so many farewells. Ward 7. She lies in a white cave of forgetfulness. A withered hand trembles on its stalk. Eyes move behind eyelids too heavy to raise. Into an arm wasted of colour a glass fang is fixed, not guzzling but giving. And between her and me distance shrinks till there is none left but the distance of pain that neither she nor I can cross She smiles a little at this black figure in her white cave who clumsily rises in the round swimming waves of a bell and dizzily goes off, growing fainter, not smaller, leaving behind only books that will not be read and fruitless fruits.

10 b) Now compare Visiting Hour by Norman MacCaig and Long Distance by Tony Harrison. [25] You should compare: What the poems are about and how they are organised; The ideas the poets may have wanted us to think about; The poets choice of words, phrases and images and the effects they create; How you respond to the poems. Long Distance by Tony Harrison

11 Homework/Revision Task Task 1: Set: Due: Task 2: Set: Due: Task 3: Set: Due: Task 4: Set: Due: Task 5: Set: Due: Task 6: Set: Due: Mark: Mark: Mark: Mark: Mark: Mark:

English Department. National 5 Specified Texts: Norman MacCaig Revision Booklet

English Department. National 5 Specified Texts: Norman MacCaig Revision Booklet English Department National 5 Specified Texts: Norman MacCaig Revision Booklet The poet is visiting a very ill relative in hospital, and tries to avoid his emotions on his way to the ward. When he arrives,